Charles Baudelaire Quotes

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• There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Inspire, Desire, Conquer

  Charles Baudelaire, Louise Varèse (1970). “Paris Spleen, 1869”, p.78, New Directions Publishing

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• You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it-it's the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk. But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Wine, Drunk, Wish

  Charles Baudelaire, “Be Drunk”

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• Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Ingredients, Strangeness

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• A multitude of small delights constitute happiness

  Charles Baudelaire

  Happiness, Delight, Multitudes

  Charles Baudelaire (1951). “My heart laid bare, and other prose writings”

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• Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Ephemeral, Eternal

  Charles Baudelaire (1951). “My heart laid bare, and other prose writings”

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• The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Life, Devil, Doe

  Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.76

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• What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?

  Charles Baudelaire

  Damnation, Delight, Matter

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• One can only forget about time by making use of it.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Inspirational, Time, Use

  "Intimate journals: Mon cœur mis à nu". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1864.

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• There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Giving, Surprise

  Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.74

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• Nothing can be done except little by little.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Perseverance, Done, Literature

  Charles Baudelaire (1956). “The Essence of Laughter: And Other Essays, Journals, and Letters”

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• To dream magnificently is not a gift given to all men, and even for those who possess it, it runs a strong risk of being progressively diminished by the ever-growing dissipation of modern life and by the restlessness engendered by material progress. The ability to dream is a divine and mysterious ability; because it is through dreams that man communicates with the shadowy world which surrounds him. But this power needs solitude to develop freely; the more one concentrates, the more one is likely to dream fully, deeply.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Running, Dream, Strong

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• I am the wound and the knife!
  I am the slap and the cheek!
  I am the limbs and the rack,
  And the victim and the executioner!
  I am the vampire of my own heart.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Heart, Knives, Self

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• Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Literature, Adultery, Sexuality

  Journaux intimes (1887) 93

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• There are some temptations which are so strong that they must be virtues.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Strong, Temptation, Virtue

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• Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Childhood, Inspire, Genius

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• The world progresses only through misunderstanding.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Progress, World, Misunderstanding

  Charles Baudelaire (1919). “Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry”

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• A silent mouth is sweet to hear.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Sweet, Mouths, Silent

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• Remembering is only a new form of suffering.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Suffering, Remember, Form

  Charles Baudelaire (1986). “La Fanfarlo”

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• What is love? The need of coming out of one's self.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Love, Self, Needs

  Charles Baudelaire (1919). “Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry”

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• Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Heaven, Doe, Matter

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• The Poet is like the prince of the clouds, who haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer. Exiled on the ground in the midst of the jeering crowd, his giant's wings keep him from walking.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Archer, Clouds, Wings

  "Selected Poems".

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• What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Best Love, Love Is, Crime

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• God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

  Charles Baudelaire

  God, Order, Needs

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• Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Literature

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• The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Wish, Able, Privilege

  Charles Baudelaire, “Crowds”

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